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list4me2 at googlemail

Dec 16, 2008, 5:11 AM

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Frontend lost all its menus;(

I have recently had to rebuild my main box due to motherboard/power
suply/video card failure. All the backend stuff seems to be working
(I have a couple of front end boxes) but the frontend on the main box
is not working. When I start up it resizes the background and
displays the correct background but I don't get any of the menus, just
the background wallpaper.

I am running on Ubuntu ibex and have tried removing the frontend in
apt with --purge and reinstalling it but no luck.

Any Ideas,
Ben
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gravityhammer at gmail

Dec 16, 2008, 5:20 AM

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Re: Frontend lost all its menus;( [In reply to]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Ben Edwards <list4me2 [at] googlemail> wrote:
> I have recently had to rebuild my main box due to motherboard/power
> suply/video card failure. All the backend stuff seems to be working
> (I have a couple of front end boxes) but the frontend on the main box
> is not working. When I start up it resizes the background and
> displays the correct background but I don't get any of the menus, just
> the background wallpaper.
>
> I am running on Ubuntu ibex and have tried removing the frontend in
> apt with --purge and reinstalling it but no luck.
>
> Any Ideas,
> Ben

IIRC, that's evidence of qt not being installed correctly.
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joshoekstra at gmx

Dec 16, 2008, 5:26 AM

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Re: Frontend lost all its menus;( [In reply to]

Ben Edwards schreef op 16-12-2008 14:11:
> I have recently had to rebuild my main box due to motherboard/power
> suply/video card failure. All the backend stuff seems to be working
> (I have a couple of front end boxes) but the frontend on the main box
> is not working. When I start up it resizes the background and
> displays the correct background but I don't get any of the menus, just
> the background wallpaper.
>
> I am running on Ubuntu ibex and have tried removing the frontend in
> apt with --purge and reinstalling it but no luck.
>
> Any Ideas,
> Ben

Had the same issue once here when the nvidia drivers wouldn't load and
OpenGL rendering was used to paint the menus. On my boxes the settings
are loaded from the backend so I had to change it via the settingspage
of mythweb, ThemePainter needed to be set to..... might be QT, but I'm
not sure.

An other option would be to look into the videodrivers ;)

Regards,

Jos Hoekstra
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Dec 16, 2008, 5:37 AM

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Re: Frontend lost all its menus;( [In reply to]

When I start up it resizes the background and
> > displays the correct background but I don't get any of the menus, just
> > the background wallpaper.

> IIRC, that's evidence of qt not being installed correctly.

..for me it normally means that opengl isn't working.

try starting mythfront end with option

-o Themepainter=qt
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mtdean at thirdcontact

Dec 16, 2008, 10:46 AM

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Re: Frontend lost all its menus;( [In reply to]

On 12/16/2008 08:37 AM, David Watkins wrote:
>>> When I start up it resizes the background and
>>> displays the correct background but I don't get any of the menus, just
>>> the background wallpaper.
> ..for me it normally means that opengl isn't working.
>
> try starting mythfront end with option
>
> -o Themepainter=qt

Or that you haven't installed the MS core web fonts (and/or don't have
appropriate font-subtitution rules specified). I can't remember what
packagers tend to call the fonts, but it's something like msttcorefonts.

Mike
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